In Re Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1994
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gray v. Taylor · T. B.R.R. Co. v. . B., H.T. W. Ry. Co. · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Sayre · Mills v. Board of Commissioners · Parvin v. Board of Commissioners
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It seems impossible to fix any definite rule by which to solve the question whether a law is local or general, and it has been found expedient to leave the matter, to a considerable extent, open, to be determined upon the special circumstances of each case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. Clarkson“* * * (T)he statute is designed and intended to provide for as many as 56 out of the 100 counties of the state, and could in no sense be regarded as a local or special law within any usual or ordinary meaning of these terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. Clarkson“to provide ways and means by which the general road work of the entire county might be successfully carried on and maintained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. Clarkson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.